Time For An Update

We're off to the cottage this weekend along with Bad Betty and Diana. Chris is spending the week (lucky her) and the 3 of us are driving home after the long weekend.






It's been hotter than hot this past week and a real struggle to keep cool while driving a sauna on wheels.

Just enjoying settling into our new home and meeting new people in our building and trying new places to eat and stay cool seems to keep us busy. We are loving it here and the accessibility to everything. An easy walk to go and get produce for example, farm fresh, good stuff. We walk everywhere and because I'm still on an 830/430 shift we get home around the same time and have the whole evening together. Lots of fun.


The boys have settled in well although the heat this week hasn't made them happy. We did keep them enclosed in the bedroom with the A/C on to keep them cool but they don't like being penned in.

Bad Betty celebrated her 83rd birthday on Wednesday so we took her out for schnitzel and white wine. It's her fave so why not? Works for us too.

OK, I'm outta here. Seeya next week!

About the Emails............

I just want to thank all of you for your educational e-mails over the past years. I am totally screwed up now and have little chance of recovery.

I no longer open a public bathroom door without using a paper towel or have them put lemon slices in my ice water without worrying about the bacteria on the lemon peel.

I can't use the remote in a hotel room because I don't know what the last person was doing while flipping through the adult movie channels.

I can't sit down on the hotel bedspread because I can only imagine what has happened on it since it was last washed.

I have trouble shaking hands with someone who has been driving because the number one pastime while driving alone is picking ones nose (although cell phone usage may be taking the number one spot).

Eating a little snack sends me on a guilt trip because I can only imagine how many gallons of Trans fats I have consumed over the years.

I can't touch any woman's purse for fear she has placed it on the floor of a public bathroom.

I MUST SEND MY SPECIAL THANKS to whoever sent me the one about poop in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet sponge with every envelope that needs sealing.

ALSO, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa's Novena has granted my every wish.

I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with four thighs and no eyes or feathers.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

THANKS TO YOU I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

BECAUSE OF YOUR CONCERN, I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer can buy gasoline without taking someone along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm pumping gas.

I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr. Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put 'Under God' on their cans.

I no longer use Saran Wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.

AND THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW I can't boil a cup of water in the microwave anymore because it will blow up in my face.... Disfiguring me for life.

I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer receive packages from UPS or Fed Ex since they are actually Al Qaeda in disguise.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore, and Uzbekistan .

THANKS TO YOU I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my butt.

AND THANKS TO YOUR GREAT ADVICE I can't ever pick up $5.00 dropped in the parking lot because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.

I can't do any gardening because I'm afraid I'll get bitten by the brown recluse and my hand will fall off.

If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 p.m. Tomorrow afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician . . .

Oh, by the way.....

A German scientist from Argentina, after a lengthy study, has discovered that people with insufficient brain activity read their e-mail with their hand on the mouse.

Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late.

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Night Out With The Dog

What a great night! Barb and I went to see Dog the Bounty Hunter. He was truly inspirational and I felt very blessed to have been a part of his night here in Vancouver. What I heard was a testimony of God's grace and forgiveness in someone's life. Listening to God's still small voice speaking to you and knowing that what you're doing is exactly what God wants you to be doing, where you are is exactly where God wants you, who you're with is who God designed for you.

Baby Easton had his first photo shoot. Isn't he handsome. Probably the best kid around. According to people in the know.

Lots of unpacking going on around here and opening boxes like it's Christmas morning. You know you think you label a box...pretty surprising sometimes what comes out of it.

Cousins from Holland visiting. Good times.

Visit with the step-dad yesterday. He told me his dad had taken him to have his watch fixed. hmmm...Paul's 86. If his dad was alive he'd be about 120.

Having a great summer. New home. New furniture. Same job. Same partner. But it's all good in the hood.

Next Sat? DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER!!!! Stay tuned.

It's July 1st!!! Happy Canada Day!!! AND it's our little B's birthdays...hard to believe that they are 3 years old. We brought them home tonight to their new home for the first time. They're impressed I can tell. Lots of windows to look out of, scratch bars in the dining and living room and food dishes in the kitchen. Just like it should be.

The big move was last weekend and with the boys home we can finally say we're all in. The month of June was a blur of packing and moving boxes into storage, more trips to Sally Ann, stuff to the dump and furniture being sold. We don't have much furniture yet as we're getting all new appliances tomorrow (yeah) and a bedroom set and dining room set on Friday. We have a couch and chair and tables being delivered in another 4 weeks or so but we have new patio furniture! Right now we're eating all of our meals on the deck, loving the top floor and view of the mountains and park.

Quite exhausted but feeling a big sense of relief that we're all here under one roof. Now for the big job of unpacking but it's coming along and in another week or so we should be all organized.

Whew!